- Location: Maynooth University, North Campus, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland - Ireland
- Duration: 1 Year
Course details
This Postgraduate Diploma in Special Educational Needs is a recognised postgraduate qualificationfor teachers working in the area of special educational needs and learning support in mainstream primary and post primary schools and for teachers in special classes/units, special schools and other relevant educational settings. The aim of the programme is to provide substantial theoretical and practical training for teachers working with pupils with special educational needs and pupils who require learning support.
Entry Requirements
Applicants, who should be qualified teachers, need to meet the following requirements:
Primary:
Applicants should have satisfactorily completed their probationary period. They must be qualified teachers who hold
A) a position in a sanctioned post in an area of special education or learning support, or who will be taking up such posts in September 2013.
or
B) a position as a mainstream class teacher who has contact with children with special educational needs
Post Primary:
Applicants must be qualified teachers who hold
A) a position in a sanctioned post in an area of special education or learning support.
or
B) a position as a mainstream teacher who has at least 10 hours of contact time with children with special educational needs.
Special Schools:
Applicants are also invited from Special School teachers. They must be qualified teachers who hold a position in a sanctioned post in a Special School,
dealing with the area of special educational needs.
Other Educational Services:
- Qualified teachers employed by VECs as literacy and/or numeracy tutors in Youthreach and who are assigned to Learning Support work (with individuals, groups or classes of not more than 15 pupils) for a minimum of 10 hours per week. At least four class periods should be allocated to teaching individuals or groups of not more than six students.
Module
Year 1
- INCLUSIVE EDUCATION
- MATHEMATICS AND CURRENT ISSUES IN SEN
- TEACHING PRACTICE, CLASS PERFORMANCE & PREPARATION
- ASSESSMENT PLANNING, & RECORD KEEPING
- SEN: LANGUAGE AND LITERACY
- RANGE OF SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS
Course Location
About Maynooth University
This means that students at Maynooth benefit from an international outlook, and those of you who wish to study abroad for a semester or an academic year during yTheir degree have a network of connections to tap in to. During the cTheirse of their academic degree students from Maynooth have studied subjects such as Law at Boston College, Mandarin Chinese at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Music in the University of Vienna.
Maynooth has many shared research projects with universities around the world.
- In the Dept of Psychology, Prof Dermot Barnes-Holmes is working with academics in Columbia University in New York to predict the success of cocaine abuse treatment.
- Mathematician Dr. Ken Duffy is working with immunologists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in MelbTheirne, Australia to analyse cell behaviTheir in a study that could have significant implications for Their understanding and treatment of diseases like Coeliac disease, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.
- Historian Dr Tom O Connor is working with colleagues from the University of Alcala and the Irish Colleges in Spain, discovering the hidden stories of Irish people who got caught up in the Spanish Inquisition.
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